Community version download

[Monte Goulding]

On 12/04/2013, at 12:26 PM, Kay C Lan wrote:

> I was under the impression that a Commercial version of LC is the Community
> Edition of LC + the ability to password protect stacks. There is nothing in
> Community that is not in Commercial.

Yes
> 
> Why would anyone with a Commercial license for LC want to work inside the
> Community Edition.

I only found a reason today... I can only test engine changes in the community edition apparently... not really sure why.

> Also, if I understand the registration authentication process, when you
> start LC up, it phones home, checks your status,

Yes, that bit's just asking for someone to fork the IDE, not sure why RunRev haven't based this login around a service like revonline but luckily I don't need to make these decisions. If it were me I'd quickly change it to Login to revOnline or skip... then make the services the login is for more compelling.

> and in Skip's case I'd say
> the response is correct, it states you are a Commercial license holder.
> This does not prevent you from releasing OSS, just like the Community
> Edition. You just have the choice.

Well I don't remember Skip saying exactly where he was seeing it. I thought he was saying it stated that he was using commercial which he wasn't.
> 
> I'm saying this from a Productive User's point of view, not from the aspect
> of whether I can delve into the Engine source code and fork off my own
> version of LC suitable to run of Mac OS 7.6.1 on Motorola 68030 chips. In
> this case, register with GitHub, download the source files, crack open
> Metrowerks CodeWarrior and have at it. But again, my understanding is, that
> if you did this, and your work met with Runrev standards, such changes
> would be Incorporated both into the Community and Commercial editions of LC.

Right, if you contributed it would. It's the same source.

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